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PART TWO of FOUR
The Beetle by Richard Marsh.
Book Two: The House with the Open Window
Book Two is the narrative of Sidney Atherton, gentleman inventor.
This is a little known gem, published in 1897, the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula. The Beetle outsold it in the first year. It went through 15 printings by 1913.
The narrative is related by four different characters, and is divided into four parts.
Part Two is narrated by Sidney Atherton and opens with his declaration of love, as they waltz, to the feisty Miss Lindon. Very soon we hear the unforgettable line: 'In effect, you offer me an Apple of Sodom'. Extraordinary stuff!
It is part horror, part romance, part mystery, part melodrama and it is without doubt highly original. Richard Marsh was a prolific writer and little is known about him: apparently he went to Eton. The Beetle is undoubtedly his masterpiece. It's been unjustly neglected. Let me know what you think.

There's the feisty female Miss Lindon, a upper class private detective, the skeletal Robert Holt, a lovelorn scientist and a government minister with a guilty past. Not to mention, Wildean dialogue and The Beetle, a monstrous creation, 'born of neither God nor man', a shape-shifter bent on revenge.

I love it.

It is read by me, Greg Wagland for Magpie Audio.
More Conan Doyle coming soon.
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